10-31: Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer / Chowdiah / UK Shivaraman / Vinayakraman : Parvathi Mysore 1965 + Beaucoup de Danses Macabres!

1634 – Erasmus Widmann (German composer, cantor & organist)
1654 – Francisco Correa de Arauxo (Spanish organist, composer & music theorist)
1744 – Leonardo Leo (Italian composer)
1768 – Francesco Maria Veracini (Italian composer & violinist)
1815 – Daniel Belknap (American farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet, composer, singing teacher & tunebook publisher)
1870 – Mihály Mosonyi (Hungarian composer)
1887 – George Alexander Macfarren (English composer & pianist, blind from a young age)
1923 – Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin (French luthier & bowmaker)
1969 – Hugo Pfister (Swiss composer)
1975 – Sachin Dev Burman [শচীন দেব বর্মন] (Indian composer, Bengali singer & Hindi film music director)
1989 – Conrad Beck (Swiss composer)
1995 – Alan Bush (English composer, pianist & teacher)
1995 – Lavada "Dr. Hepcat" Durst (American blues pianist & singer)
1995 – Lloyd Lambert (American R&B & rock bass guitarist)
2003 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer [செம்மங்குடி ஸ்ரீனிவாச ஐயர்] (Indian Tamil singer of Carnatic music)

Not many familiars for this Samhain, but I was fortunate enough to locate a recording of the legendary Tamil singer Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer that is as historic as it is lo-fi. Other than that, nada. So I thought we'd have a little fun and belatedly celebrate the holiday right (hey, it's Hallowe'en everyday here at YiDM) with a little mix featuring a variety of recordings of the delightful Danse macabre, Op. 40 by Camille Saint-Saëns (1874). In it, you'll find not only complete orchestral versions (ranging in date from 1927 to 1959), but versions for violin & piano, violin with chamber ensemble, and organ. In addition, you'll hear the chanson of the same name Saint-Saëns wrote in 1872, the "Fossils" movement from his Carnival of the Animals, and a Horowitz transcription, which, if you know anything about those, takes some extreme liberties with the original material. Enjoy! And be safe, kiddies...

10-10a: Brahms | Schubert | Mendelssohn : Istomin / Stern / Rose - Beethoven Symphony 6 Pastoral / Paray 1934 - Catherine Collard : Haydn Piano Sonatas | Franck Violin Sonata

1676 – Sebastian Knüpfer (German composer, cantor & music director, Leipzig)
1727 – Alphonse d' Eve (Flemish composer & choirmaster)
1745 – Jacobus Nozeman (Dutch composer & organist)
1789 – Pierre-Louis Couperin (French organist, Église Saint-Gervais, Paris, great-grandnephew of Louis, 1st cousin twice removed of François)
1806 – Prince Louis Ferdinand (Prussian monarch, soldier, pianist & composer)
1836 – Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn (French composer, violist & teacher)
1843 – Karl Theodor Toeschi (German court composer & violinist, Mannheim)
1856 – Michał Wielhorski (Polish composer)
1867 – Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (Polish pianist & composer)
1889 – Adolf von Henselt (German composer & pianist)
1964 – Eddie Cantor (American singer, comedian, dancer, actor, songwriter & humanitarian)
1964 – Russ Case (American studio trumpeter & pop, jazz & soundtrack composer, arranger & conductor)
1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus (Soviet pianist & teacher of German ancestry, teacher of Sviatoslav Richter & Emil Gilels)
1964 – František Pícha (Czech composer)
1965 – Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov [Георгий Михайлович Римский-Корсаков] (Russian composer, nephew of Nikolai)
1967 – Ervin Major (Hungarian musicologist & composer)
1976 – Silvana Armenulić (Yugoslavian folk & sevdalinka singer & actress)
1976 – Connee Boswell (American pop & jazz singer, the Boswell Sisters)
1978 – Ralph Marterie (Italian-born American jazz trumpeter & bandleader)
1979 – Paul Paray (French conductor, organist & composer)
1993 – Catherine Collard (French pianist)
1994 – Nikolai Karetnikov [Николáй Карéтников] (Soviet underground composer & pianist)
2002 – Teresa Graves (American actress & pop singer, Laugh-In, Vampira, Get Christie Love!)
2003 – Eugene Istomin (American pianist)

Okay, this edition is turning out to be a real ball-buster. I employed the progressive aspect there because I'm not even done yet! The edition will be in TWO parts, thanks to the passing on October 10 of last year of a very famous opera singer. And thus we will be having another opera a little later! Haven't had one in a while. As you might imagine, operas eat up a lot in terms of the labels, because of the names of all the damned singers. There will be some other offerings for Part Deux as well, so if you're not fond of opera there may be some other items that will be of interest to you.

As far as this post goes, even it is not quite be finished, because I'm planning on doing something special for Eddie Cantor and Connee Boswell, but it will take some more time for me to complete that task. When I do, they'll be added to the post for "10-10b," even though Connee & Eddie's images appear in this post's collage. Does that make sense? I know it probably doesn't, but just humor me. I'm a crazy person, remember.

Sorry I can't say any more right now. I'll try to add a little more to this write-up later. I know, you've heard that one before...